Just aggressively learning nothing as hard as possible. 
is a death cult.
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If Trump were smart and planned ahead - just a couple weeks or so into his presidency - he would have started a highly classified project to weaponized bird flu. If they got it to work...
When it's useful for Trump - they release weaponized bird flu in population centers to create a horrific pandemic. Maybe in more GOP cities than dem cities. Why? See #2.
He blames "enemies trying to destroy America". Maybe he blames immigrants or democrats or immigrants-and-democrats. he could even squeeze Iran in there. He can claim anything. It doesn't matter.
Trump forces the federal government to look for the enemies and he doesn't even giving lip service to trying to stop the pandemic.
Panic goes off the scale as mountain of corpses form and the economy craters because other countries treat the US like a plague state. They stop travel to and from the US, etc.
He demands immediate and extraordinary powers. Not just stuff like martial law but suspension of the constitution "temporarily" to stop the enemies. Of course the dems don't put up a fight and GOP SCOTUS give him what he wants.
He then is effectively a dictator because his "temporary" powers are permanent.
The problem with all this is he knows from COVID he can catch this too and he's quite afraid of dying. So unless he had his "brilliant men" come up with a vaccine that the virus can't evolve immunity to or evade through evolutionary changes in the population he wouldn't want this. He's also racist enough that he wouldn't want to kill all the good white Americans while not touching foreigners who are "ripping us off".
I'm convinced if you offered him a magic wand with one wish and the choices were he becomes a hit and beloved broadway producer with a successful play and is back in New York and beloved with all his old friends and even his enemies admitting he's done a great job or he becomes dictator that he'd probably take the broadway success route.
He's one weird fucked up dude. In our reality he vile and runs a government with gestapo funded at insane levels plus he's going to spend ~$40 billion on his concentration camps. But I agree with you. He'd give all of that up to be tops on Broadway.
I disagree with you there. I don't think Trump lost a minute - even a second - of sleep on the death toll under his watch. And what he learned from that experience is that the death toll didn't matter at all. Nobody of importance cares. And when he got covid - I think he believed nonsense like his "good genes" saved him.
I don't know if you saw it - but he made a reality tv-like PR return to the White House. His helicopter landed out on the grass and he walked to the building. Even under his suit (and coat?) you could see his chest heaving and it was clear he was struggling for breath. I'm certain the doctors told him to be very careful about his health but he didn't care. He needed his big return. He was clearly still recovering and I actually thought he might have a health episode right then and there.
He wanted to wear a Superman t-shirt after he left the hospital. I don't think his near death experience taught him a thing. In fact - I think it's the opposite. He started to think of himself as invincible like Superman.